
Jake Nickell
Founder / CEO
Threadless
Chicago, IL USA
“I've been lucky-I've done pretty well-but even if I'd been doing this for the past 14 years and making just enough to get by, I'd still consider it a success.”
Threadless
Chicago, IL USA
“I've been lucky-I've done pretty well-but even if I'd been doing this for the past 14 years and making just enough to get by, I'd still consider it a success.”
Founder / CEO
I grew an online community of artists into a multi-million dollar e-commerce phenomenon.
I spend most of my time building online tools for artists to share and monetize their work.
Here's the first step for everyone
Always have a personal project on the side that you are working on. It keeps you distracted, but also might lead to something incredible and unexpected.
"You are just a scam. "
The road-trippers try their hand at spinning molten glass with glassblower Jessica Schimpf. The world isn't looking for you, she says, you have to go out and find it--she left a big-time welding gig to follow her dreams. In Texas, the team interviews Austonites on the street and goes for beignets and palm readings in New Orleans before hitting crowd-powered T-shirt purveyor Threadless in Chicago.